Zooming in on part of a video clip

I'm new to iMovie and don't even know if what I want to do is possible, but i've done a few searches and come up empty, so here goes:
I'm working with a video clip of my dog playing that is about 45 seconds long. In one part of the clip she runs away from the camera, and does a funny jump. I want to zoom in on her when she jump, which is lasts 5 seconds (not the jump itself, just the lead up and landing :P).
I know that I would lose some resolution in doing this, and I'm OK with that. it's not too much zoom, maybe 25% of the original frame would be lost. Is this possible in iMovie '11?
Thanks,
psymn

Split the clip on the section you want to zoom in on. Click on the gear popup on the clip and select crop & rotation. Drag the edges to the section you want to zoom into. Click Done.

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Sorry to ask but I do not use FCE that much. I am working with a video of a CCTV footage and want to zoom in to part of the footage to see what is gong on in detail. except I have no idea how to do this! Is there a way you can either zoom into part of the video or have a box that contains the zoomed in part on the frame, if you see what I mean? There may be a filer that can be used I don't know.
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The explanation isn't quite right. Scaling is a logrithmic animation. An image at 100% scale fills the screen; when the image is at 50% scale it's a quarter size of the screen. This is why when you scale an image up it seems to get slower and slower as it scales up, and vice versa. Position on the other hand is a linear animation . The difference in the two is the problem.
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